Sentences with phrase «approved as a foster carer»

You must be approved as a foster carer if the local council has officially asked you to look after a child.

Although ideally you will have been assessed and approved as a foster carer before the child comes to live with you, there is clearly no time for this if a child is placed with you in a crisis.

they can put the child's name on the national adoption register to find suitable adopters and place the child with potential adoptive parents (who are temporarily approved as foster carers) anywhere in the country.

In England, all foster carers are required to complete the Training Support and Development Standards within 12 to 18 months of becoming approved as a foster carer.

If a child needs to be placed with a relative, friend or other connected person straight away and there is no time to do a full fostering assessment, they may be assessed and approved as a foster carer temporarily, provided some immediate checks being carried out by the social worker.

Relatives and friends can be assessed and approved as foster carers for a child in their family who is looked after and needs to be placed.

This is a law that allows Children's Services to place a specific named child in a temporary fostering arrangement, with a person who is not approved as a foster carer but who is approved generally as an adopter.

If there are two adults in the household approved as foster carers, both will be expected to complete the relevant training.

There is no requirement for the adults in the household that the child visits or accompanies on holiday to be approved as a foster carer, as the child remains formally placed with their usual foster carers.

Not exact matches

Research undertaken as part of the Inquiry including a freedom of information request submitted to all English local authorities found that 163 children in care under a voluntary arrangement have been placed with foster carers who are already approved as suitable adopters since foster for adoption legislation came into force three years ago.

Where an applicant has been approved previously, or is currently approved, as a foster carer or prospective adopter, regulation 26 (1A) gives the fostering service undertaking the current assessment the power to request access to records about the applicant held by the fostering service or adoption agency which granted the approval (provided that the applicant consents).

Regulation 27 requires that the decision maker must take account of the fostering panel's recommendation before deciding whether or not to approve a person as a foster carer, and on what terms.

If, within 28 days, no representations are received and no application is made to the IRM, the decision maker is free to decide whether or not to approve the applicant as a foster carer (following a full assessment), continue the assessment (following a brief report) or amend their terms of approval.

However if they are considering adoption, they could place a child with foster carers who are also approved as prospective adopters - see fostering for adoption.

They may be approved as a temporary foster carer or a fully approved foster carer.

This high court judgement made it clear that family and friends carers, caring for a looked after child who was placed with them by Children's Services, have a right to be paid a fostering allowance at the same approved rates as unrelated foster carers who work for Children's Services.

The decision maker of the recruiting service may state that they will approve the person as a foster carer on a specific date in the future, which could be planned to coincide with the termination of their existing approval at the expiry of the 28 day notice period.

5.6 Once the fostering panel of the recruiting fostering service has made its recommendation and the service indicates that it is ready to approve the foster carer, the foster carer should submit their resignation to the current fostering service, as set out in paragraph 4.5 above.

As an approved foster carer you would receive a weekly fostering allowance, intended to cover the cost of looking after a child or young person such as clothing, food and pocket money which varies with the chilAs an approved foster carer you would receive a weekly fostering allowance, intended to cover the cost of looking after a child or young person such as clothing, food and pocket money which varies with the chilas clothing, food and pocket money which varies with the child.